Top 5 Favorite NES Games

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we're actually going to spend some time and talk

about our favorite classic NES video games from

back in a day our top five You haven't done a

top five in a while, but we're bringing it back

But before we get to that top five how things

been going with you Greg? Pretty good pretty

good. I just dropped a whole shit ton of money

on a new computer I'm actually updating it and

getting it set up as we speak if I got it done

a little bit quicker or whatever. I would have

been recording on it tonight, but you have that

to look forward to. It's super nice. I got a

Acer Predator 17. It's a gaming laptop. I chose

that over a Mac because I figured PC is kind

of caught up to Mac when it comes to graphics

and everything like that, and maybe even surpassed

it at this point. And PCs are just cheaper to

begin with. And I figured I'd get a gaming laptop

because the graphics would be even better. And

I could also play more stuff on a PC than I can

on a Mac. Do you have any games you're going

to try to splurge into in the world of PC gaming?

Yeah, there's this game that I've seen a couple

YouTubers play called Rust. It's kind of in my

purview of what I like in video games. It kind

of falls into that fallout, kind of Skyrim, huge

open worlds kind of situation and survive. So

yeah, I'm looking into that. And yeah, I also

got a gaming mouse because I figure that's kind

of important. You can't really play video games

with a trackpad. You're getting, like, the utility

belt of PC gaming. You're gonna be all set. Yeah,

yeah, that's that's what I'm trying to do and

then eventually maybe get a Wacom tablet and

No, no Wacom tablet is Like this little pad and

it comes with a stylus and you could draw and

do stuff on on that Instead of like using a mouse.

It's just like a pen that you could go around

with I use one for work for retouching photos

and stuff and then it's also good for work and

stuff. So I want to get one of those and also

download and buy the software for Photoshop and

other Adobe programs as well. So I'm hopefully

gonna get really set up and everything. But how's

your week been going, Dan? Going good, going

good. I do have kind of a random interesting

story. So had that recent horrific event happen

when you lose your wallet? You know, it wasn't

actually me in this case, but one morning my

wife was getting ready to leave. She was going

to go visit with a friend in Philly and she was

packing up getting her stuff ready. She couldn't

find her wallet. She's like, where is it? I'm

like, you know, I'm not sure. So we're looking

all over for it and thinking maybe, you know,

our son's in the age of where he likes to take

things and put things places just because it's

fun. It's often the garbage can and his diaper

pail or his favorite two hiding spots. So that

we've found many things in his diaper pail that

I'm like, oh, that's where that shirt went to.

So we're looking all over for it. We're having

no luck. You know, you start to get worried because

you're thinking, you know, we're checking the

bank accounts. None of the cards are being used.

So I'm like, well, that's good at least. So think

back of where she was at and... Checking the

car going through all that it's just and then

you're doing that math in your head of losing

wallet math of a cupcake and I need to get new

cards you need to change everything online you

need to change like all you know are your preferences

for bills and things like that you need to go

to the DMV and get a get a new license and it's

just like this endless amount of things if we

can't find it, but She's like well the last place

she used it was at the grocery store the night

before so well like well You know we'll try to

call and see if it's there if anyone dropped

it off and we're calling and calling and calling

and like Something was going wrong with their

phones and like they weren't picking up. It would

say like oh, sorry We're not here We're gonna

put you on hold and we'll get back to you soon

as possible once they did that it hung up and

it was like well All right. Well, that's weird.

So she had to drive to find it. So she's looking

and you know, it's like How's it gonna be here?

You're just hoping someone was nice enough to

do it and Luckily enough, you know, she gets

to the customer service and she asked for the

wallet and they're like, wow We thought you'd

be here yesterday apparently When she was putting

her Groceries into the car. She must have left

it on the actual cart and put the cart back would

never actually grabbed a wallet and Luckily,

some very kind person turned it in and she was

able to grab it. She had some money in it and

everything was left untouched. I only feel bad

because we can't thank that person because we

don't know who did it. But it was very amazing,

nice thing for someone to do. Yeah, it's a good

thing to see nowadays with all the shit that's

going on. It's still good to see a good deed

done. Yeah, and that's kind of why I wanted to

share it. There are some nice people out there,

you know. Someone could have easily taken the

cash and used that. There was a decent hunk of

cash in there, but everything was returned and

so that was a huge sigh of relief because it's

like, oh thank god, it's like that would not

be fun. But besides that, one thing I did do

was... check out Dave Chappelle's most recent

comedy special. I don't even know the last time

he did a comedy special, but - Is that the one

on Netflix? Yes, it's actually two. Okay, I want

to see that. So there's - Oh, there's two of

them? There's two one -hour specials, yeah. Oh,

I didn't catch that. I honestly, like, I realized

I haven't watched a lot of Chappelle's stand

-up. I watched a lot of Chappelle's show. I watched

some of his movies, but never watched a lot of

his stand -up. And I'm not gonna go into great

detail, because I don't want to spoil any of

the jokes or any of the concepts or anything

like that, but - You know, it's hilarious. I

love, Chappelle is a very unique style as a comedian.

Like, he's just a really good storyteller. Like,

it's not necessarily that he's telling, it doesn't

even sound like he's telling jokes. It's just

like he's just kind of talking about things,

or he's just describing things, and it's just,

he's a really good matter of fact way about things.

Some of the premises that he talks about, like

he, this is running joke throughout. the show

where he talks about him running into an infamous

celebrity multiple times and it goes throughout

the entire uh, first special. I haven't watched

much of the second special yet, but the first

one was great. I think it was recorded, like,

last year around this time. It was, like, around

the time that, uh, Garen Sherling passed away,

uh, because that comes up in the special. But

it's, it's funny. It's, I mean, especially being

on Netflix, I had it in the background when I

was, uh, working on stuff, and it was just a

great, like, man, it makes you feel good. He's

a funny dude, like... one of the probably usually

one of the best comedians up there and this is

certainly certainly that much much better than

the amy schumer special which i watched like

five minutes of i'm like i'm done this is not

very good this is awful and i like amy schumer

but that special was just bonkers and ridiculous

and just like so uh it was just lazy so don't

watch that but do watch station palace special

it's pretty good Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Amy

Schumer, but I like Dave Chappelle and I heard

on the radio that is his Special was coming out

on Netflix and apparently it's out already. So

I as soon as they said that on the radio I'm

like, I definitely have to check that out. I

love his I loved Chappelle show when it was on

Still I'll go online and watch some of those

skits and I'll still laugh at them and everything

And the little bit that they had on the radio

that they played was was really funny, so I'll

definitely have to check that out. Nice. And

I know that, oddly enough, you accidentally ended

up watching something, so I'm very curious about

what you watched and how exactly it happened.

Yeah, I accidentally watched an anime Are you

okay? Do we need to do we need to have like an

intervention that kind of just getting no no

no no no it was just weird because it was a 3d

CGI anime and I found it on Netflix and I found

it in the horror section and the cover artwork

it looked like actual people and the thumbnail

for it isn't like huge so it was kind of like

oh okay this this sounds interesting it's about

people being brought back from the dead to fight

these monsters that are landing in japan and

everything and i'm like oh that sounds kind of

cool that that sounds like something up my alley

so i clicked on it and uh little did i know it's

actually an anime with really really good graphics

and it was a 3d CGI like I said and it looked

stunning it was like kind of like back in the

day when you and Chuck and I were saying that

when like the Marvel Ultimate Alliance that kind

of stuff came out on the cutscenes and that we

were like we wish they would do like an animated

movie like this it was like that but way better

like there were some parts for things looked

like real like perfectly real The only thing

that made it not look real were the faces of

people and everything But like there were water

effects and fire effects and and they looked

Great and there was like scenes for like mundane

scenes where they're like just showing kind of

like objects and those objects looked so perfect

like he was looking at he had a little like gift

bag though with the main character and that looked

real It looked like a photo or a video of an

actual thing. So that was really good. The characters

were cool. The concept was interesting, but the

story itself, I felt like it was just repetitive

and not fully formed and a little bit confusing.

Japanese was subtitled down the bottom of the

English was down the bottom. So I had to read

that and kind of keep up with what the picture's

going on. So that might've been. One of the issues

for me being a little bit confused, but it was

mostly just fighting really weird creatures It's

oh, sorry. Yeah, it's called dance zero G a n

t z colon zero or is it like a forever long title

because I feel like every anime like It has to

have at least five words in the title No, no

that that's it gants colon We're zero. Oh, that's

it And it is it is on Netflix I highly recommend

people watch it even though the story wasn't

good. The characters were interesting The fight

scenes were interesting creatures were bizarre.

So that definitely made it interesting like it

kept my attention but the story wasn't great

and it was a little difficult to keep up with

especially especially the last scenes were confusing

because there were like flashbacks or flash forwards

or something i wasn't really sure what was going

on there but it's definitely a cool concept and

plus if you like really well animated boob jiggle

that definitely had that going on and and full

effect there there was this one character uh

who was very voluptuous and every time she moved

her boobs. It was like all over the place. It

was crazy. Um, and then there was also a creature

made of women, uh, like naked body, just kind

of like their boobs and their butt, especially

just composed like whole bunch of women's body

made up this creature. And it was huge and everything.

But, uh, the story overall was about these people

that were kind of brought back. from the dead

to play in this game essentially quote unquote

and it was kind of like a video game where they

kind of had to level up and everything to get

different things so they had to get points for

different kills and everything so they could

get different weapons or they could leave the

game itself or they could bring back a dead teammate

that that died previously. So that was kind of

an interesting choice that the character had

to make at the end, because he grew attached

to his teammates and everything. But then he

has a little brother that he takes care of. And

I don't even think an extra weapon achievement

was really in the cards for him. But it was those

last two choices that really made the story interesting.

So I would definitely check it out. It was a

good experience for somebody that's not really

into anime. Mostly it's because of the animation

style. So this one was a 3D CGI that was really

well done. So I think that really helped me kind

of approach this and swallow it easier than a

regular anime that's animated. And was it dubbed

or was it subtitles? No, no, no, it was it was

it was subtitles, speaking Japanese and then

English came in down the bottom and everything.

Okay. Yeah, I know sometimes I can make a break

anime with with bad subtitles or with baths voiceover

because I have watched a lot of hey Miyazaki

read recently and well, that's usually you know,

they're usually done by Disney so years are getting

pretty good voice actors are legitimate like

main actor sometimes wrongfully cast like Billy

Bob Thorne as a monk like that wasn't a good

idea. But yeah, very cool. Yeah, definitely definitely

check it out. It's it's like now one of my favorite

animes I guess not that I've watched that many

but What what you know is there another one you

would? Do you like Attack on Titan? I've heard

the good things about that. Yeah, that one seems

very bizarre to me, too. I just haven't had any

opportunity to see one like that. There's there's

other ones that I've just kind of randomly clicked

on in Netflix, but it's those are mostly like

a TV series. So it like. Goes through a whole

bunch of episodes and usually they're not dubbed

over. It's usually Yeah, so it's I haven't really

found a good one other than this that was like

an hour and a half movie like and it was it was

pretty easily digestible and everything watch

Akira or Like ghosts in the shell net now that's

becoming a live -action movie in a few weeks.

No, I haven't haven't seen any of those No, because

I like ghosts in the shell because they're showing

Scarlett Johansson like in this weird like Thing

that almost looks like she's naked but she's

not at all It's kind of like how it was very

much in the actual movie itself. I Don't know.

I'm not any way anime aficionado by by any means,

but I've watched a few just because of Preparing

for different lists. We've done for geek cast

radio if i'm just going to off a tv show literally

animated tv show i've watched is dragon ball

z and i was in it for a few like a year or so

but maybe a little bit longer but it got it gets

like so ridiculously repetitive like you were

saying it's like i'm gonna have 16 episodes regarding

one fight between two pieces all right like i

get it yeah their power 15 minutes. All right,

like, all right, we're gonna fight some more

and okay, then we're gonna I get this is that's

what this movie kind of was was like, okay Defeat

these people. Okay, we're going over here defeat

these people. Okay, we're going over here defeat

these people And so it's like, okay, it's just

fight after fight after fight I thought it was

going to be I thought there was gonna be a break

in there somewhere where we okay This is we got

through this first battle Now we've got this

little thing in the middle where we kind of relax,

get a little bit more details into backstories

and everything, and then move on to more battles.

But there was nothing in between. It was just

a battle throughout the movie with little things

in between, but it really didn't have any kind

of substance to add to the story. Enemy movie

was something it was great for the fireflies,

which is legitimately one of the saddest films

i've ever watched but it's Okay, we won't watch

them It's a great movie though. I would recommend

watching it. It's I mean, it's definitely gonna

make you like yeah, see i've i've had like Don't

like been so depressed through periods of my

life that I really don't like to watch sad or

depressing things I'd rather watch like happy

or at least like bloody like violent kind of

stuff like so I would recommend for you then

was Princess Man, okay, that would be it's another

Himizaki Disney has the partnership with Miyazaki.

So they put out of all of his movies. So the

dub is pretty good, though. The actors they got

for the most part. It's probably my favorite

of his films overall. He has different ones.

He has like ones like My Neighbor Torture Row,

which is more kid friendly. That one's sad, but

it's not nearly as sad as Grave of the Fireflies.

It has kind of a bittersweetness to it. And then

there's ones that are like Nausicaa Valley of

the Wind that are these like these grands epic

scale type of movies and That's what Princess

Manon. Okay is but it's great The first time

ever watched anime was watching that on stars

one afternoon and I'm like, what the hell am

I watching and it was Like a lot of an amazes

what the hell am I watching I think the other

thing that kind of bothers me about an amaze

is like the dub or voiceover because it seems

like they're either like Shouting mad. It's something

where they don't really need to be or like the

girls are like sobbing in the corner for like

no explained for dumb reasons like it's just

this weird extreme like they can't hit like this

middle emotion sometimes and It's just bizarre.

It's like comparing like something on the stage

where they have to emote more to kind of like

a movie where they could get close -ups and everything

so they don't have to emote that much. So it's

like 10 steps above a theater even. I don't wonder

if things get lost in translation where they're

like, I know what, we don't really have a word

for this. So we're just going to have them laughing.

So it looks OK. I don't know. It's interesting.

But anything else before we take a quick break?

No, no, I think there's actually more of these

Gants which I'm gonna look out for but I didn't

find any on Netflix and they're actually live

-action and they actually come from a manga which

is if any of you don't know it's it's the comic

book version kind of Japanese stories kind of

like American version is like superhero comics

Marvel and DC. Yeah, so Very cool. Alrighty.

Well, what we're gonna do is take a quick break

and we come back We'll be talking about our favorite

classic NES games our top five right after this

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and welcome back. Yesterday we were talking about

our top five favorite NES... Video games, but

before we get to the actual top five when we

were old enough. I think the part playing the

NES I think it was already out for a little bit

Yeah, so I know I still played it a great deal.

It was the first like video game console I think

my family ever owned. I don't know about you

like how We actually had an Atari first Yeah,

so my brother and I would play like tanks, which

is like a super simple tank game that I'm pretty

sure you could find online even. But I used to

play that all the time. We had tanks. We had

that terrible E .T. game that was like dumped

in the desert somewhere or something like that.

That that legend. We had that terrible game.

Yeah, I watched that and so yeah, I played Atari

beforehand, but NES was definitely my go -to

system. I don't really remember playing Atari

that much other than like finding it again when

you're a little bit older and you're like, oh,

let's play this little bit and hook this back

up again. But mostly I played a lot of NES and

my mom used to tell me I'd come home from like

school and everything and I would just go directly

to the NES sit. cross -legged and I like wouldn't

move for hours and like my I would like Wiggle

my foot back up and down as I'm sitting there

cross -legged the entire time and like Apparently

it wasn't like a normal cross -legged kind of

thing It was this weird way that I would sit

and they didn't know how like I was sitting like

that It was so weird. I I don't even know how

to describe it because I don't actually remember

doing it myself But I all I remember is just

being sucked into to the games and everything

and I played a lot Yeah, I so I'm the youngest

of five kids and I shared a room with my brother

growing up and we had an NES and was the first

game system and like I you know, I played it

but it was more so theirs than mine so I kind

of I watched a lot of playing games you know

I did occasionally play here and there I had

neighbors as well and we they had Nintendo when

we would play a lot of games together some of

them we'll talk about but they had the they had

the really cool version of it that had the NES

the light gun along with like the trackpad and

I had the light gun I never had a trackpad oh

the trackpad that was a lot of fun that was a

lot of fun especially we would cheat because

like you're supposed to use your legs but we

would like at times use our hands uh instead

i don't know well my favorite with the light

gun is like putting it right up to the screen

yeah yeah yeah yeah so do have a lot of great

memories playing that and i remember like going

to different, that was back when video game stores,

or not video game stores, but like movie stores

went, and there was this, this was before Blockbuster

was even in our area, it was a McDonald's video,

it's like a family -run video store, and you

would be able to rent something free on your

birthday, and I remember one... One of my birthdays,

I got a Sesame Street game or something like

that. I just remember NES games, there being

so many of them on so many different things.

Even looking at some of the games as we're putting

this list together, there are so many NES games.

It's just like they were just making them on

a day -to -day basis. they just put two words

together it's like bad dudes that sounds like

a video game alright here it is did you continue

with nintendo after that or were you just nes

did you do 64 or super nes or gamecube or anything

no i i really didn't do many video games after

that like i i had the i had the nes i remember

my cousin getting um uh sega genesis Somewhere

in there my next -door neighbor got the N64 which

I love to play That bond game that everybody

loves. Yeah. Yeah, Goldeneye. Yeah, I remember

playing that with him And then he also had I

never watched Pokemon, but they had the Pokemon

snap game I think it was called where you go

around and take pictures of the Pokemon. I really

like that one But I didn't get into a new system

until the first PlayStation, I think. Yeah, it

was a while. No, wait, I had a GameCube before

that, and that's a piece of shit. I wish I never

got that. I don't even remember what games I

played for that, but that was... piece of shit

system. The most significant after was definitely

the first PlayStation, and then I got PlayStation

2, and now I'm up to four, and I got PlayStation

3. So I got every PlayStation system after. So,

yeah, how about you? Video games were a huge

part of going up for me, so we did have the Nintendo,

but I didn't go back to Nintendo until the 64.

We went to Sega Genesis. That was our system

of choice. But I did have a 64, and the 64 was

the first system that was mine. That was my system

that I had, and I loved that a lot. I played

a lot of, which I didn't include on this, like

the... Mario 64, Zelda Orkania of Time, which

was probably my all time favorite video game.

Like the one I probably spent my most time playing.

You would probably be shocked to hear that I've

never played a Zelda game. Oh wow. No, I've heard

I've heard that I mean especially if you've never

if you stopped after NES Then after that I did

get I actually had a Dreamcast. I was one of

those guys I actually loved and I love my Dreamcast

after my 64 broke I went to Dreamcast and then

I think I'm having this order, right? I did have

a PlayStation 2 but I got PlayStation 2 pretty

late because I had I had the Dreamcast for for

a good bit of time and Then I had an Xbox So

I went more to Xbox after that Xbox and Xbox

360 I'd skipped well I just got the whatever

Xbox One now just recently but because I have

a huge Period of time where I didn't play but

but yeah, so like I've gone on and off like I

haven't owned a Nintendo system since the 64

like I Didn't own the GameCube. I didn't own

a we am game piece shit We my parents got a wee

and my brother had a wee while he was still in

the house. So I Played that a little bit. My

parents still have a wee downstairs. They just

use it to watch Netflix really And I think my

dad recently might have done the Wii sports game,

because he likes the one where at the resort

or whatever, where you're on the island. And

he likes this one where you could essentially

fly a plane using the Wii remote. He likes planes.

He likes the drone stuff going on. He doesn't

have an expensive one or anything, but he has

a bunch of tiny ones that he likes to harass

us with in the house. So I haven't played the

the Wii in like forever. Yeah I do plan on getting

out like a classic NES once they actually sell

them more than like two at a time in the entire

world and I did have I did have I forgot I did

have a Game Boy for yeah had good Game Boy as

well yeah and I didn't was yours color or was

it black and white I had black and white and

then I did have to get a for a short period of

time I had a Nintendo DS that we played and then

my relative broke it and so it no longer works

but I actually had a PSP and I traded it in for

a DS because like the PSP started like stop making

games but I did love the PSP. They fell out really

quick the PSP. I and I love that like my current

my now wife got that for me for a birthday present

way back when which was insane because we're

still in college so i think she stole it i don't

know how she afforded it but uh did you ever

have somebody steal a gift for you not that i

know of not that i know of had a girlfriend that

stole me stole a gift for me really what did

she she got it out of Just she was something

really dumb. It was out of Spencer's gift. She

got me like this voodoo doll type of thing It

was very bizarre and I was like what the hell

is wrong with you. You actually know her by the

way, Dan Okay, I could I get put two and two

together Okay, cool. I cuz I don't want to say

her name Nice. No, I've never had anyone steal

anything from me To my knowledge to my knowledge,

but I forgot I did have a PSP and that was fun.

I did like that I remember playing X -Men Legends

2 on that. It was cool because there was a specific

version just for PlayStation. I played that a

lot. Back when I was in college, I would have

time in between classes and stuff, so I would

go in my car or go into the student lounge area

and play. Besides all that I guess we can get

right in into our top five and I don't know about

you, but I just kind of ranked them based upon

Memory and the ones I played the most enjoyed

the most but uh for you what what's number? What's

number? What's five on your list? Five is actually

I'm not sure that I think there was two of this

game, but it's DuckTales I think it was the second

one where you're going across Different continents

and everything that one I loved because it was

DuckTales and I love DuckTales back in the day

And it had a different kind of control system

with like how you would you'd had the pogo kind

of pogo on the cane and everything which was

really cool and fun I always put the thing that

really killed it for me was the the one where

you kind of did the golf shot To hit something.

I always had trouble hitting the controls to

get that to do it. So that was kind of bizarre.

The music in that one is really stunning. Like

the space scene where it kind of starts off like

ethereal and kind of slow and then it just like

kicks. Into the music. I just love the soundtrack

to that one But I just remember playing that

one a lot. I wasn't very good at that game Like

I like I said because the controls and everything

I had issues with I don't know why And I think

that one's a very popular one among a lot of

people as well, especially for the music Yeah,

and I think there was they did a remaster a couple

years ago of that game Yeah And I played that

a lot too. I played that in the rescue Rangers

game because you know I was a timer anything

Disney afternoon related I was I was you know,

so I don't ever made a tailspin game But they

should they should speaking of they did make

a tailspin game. They did they did I had it It

wasn't very good. Ah, darn. It was basically

a side -scroller where you were blue in the plane

with his head sticking out of it and just kind

of like side -scroll and you just kind of shoot.

You know what, I do kind of remember that. Maybe

I did play that, but did you see the stuff for

the New DuckTales cartoon coming out? Mmm, I

just saw maybe like a couple screenshots is a

very different animation style to it It looks

nothing like the the old version of it It's like

it's like a cross between like classic and new

I'm interested. I don't know. It's a it's got

a pretty like star -studded voice cast, which

I was surprised to see but yeah, I mean I started

is a strong word, but there's I kind of named

one person on the voice cast and then this has

like Danny Pudi and a few other people that are

at least recognizable names, which I'm like,

why do you need that for DuckTales? But who?

I don't know. Anyways, for my number five, I

actually cheated because that's the way I roll.

And I kind of combined a bunch of a bunch of

them into three into my number five. They all

kind of have a theme that runs through them out.

And they're all vehicle related games, like where

you're driving some sort of vehicle or flying

a vehicle. And. The three are Captain Skyhawk,

Jackal and Cobra Triangle. So, growing up as

a kid, you know, my dad was in the Air Force,

so we, I loved planes, I went to a lot of air

shows, I had a lot of toy planes, and Captain

Skyhawk was like this video game that, obviously

a video game, but it was this game, you flew,

it was basically like an F -14, but it was in

space, and you would fight aliens. It was similar

to probably what the Blue Game was like. And

I was actually watching the screen, like, video

game playing of it. I'm like, wow, that looks

nothing like I remember it. In my head, it was

so much more elaborate and things like that.

But it's like, wow, that's so basic. But I had

a lot of fun with it because it was a tough game.

The controllers were... Difficult and the worst

part was like at the end of each level there

would be the space Station that you would have

to try to get in and it was spinning in circles

and you would have to try to like Align it perfectly

and it was so difficult to do it was so hard

It was just as hard as with top gun and landing

on the aircraft carrier. That was really really

tough The other one is jackal, which is a cheap

base game where you would be a bunch of little

Jeeps going through different areas blowing things

up fighting things again It was like a button

masher That was a lot of fun. I remember playing,

that was tough too. I remember playing that with

my brother and trying to get through all these

different things. And I loved that a lot too

because I was a huge G .I. Joe fan. It was like

almost like playing G .I. Joe in a video game.

And lastly is Coba Triangle, which is put out

by Rare and it's a boat game that... It was almost

open world a little bit you would like drive

around your boat and try to destroy different

things You'd fight sea monsters and other boats.

I love the music to it a great little soundtrack

But I think that's what I remember the sound

effects the most I remember when I'm like because

it was during a time when we didn't get the new

video games owned video games a lot and I remember

coming home from school and hearing like What

sounds are that? I never heard those before.

Open the Door, Instagram Brother has a very brand

new video game that I've never seen before and

I was fascinated by it. So I loved all those

games. Probably Jackal is probably the one that's

the best out of all three of them. I've actually

played that since then, like through emulators

and stuff like that. The other ones aren't as

playable, but Jackal's still a lot of fun. So

those are my number fives. Haven't heard of a

single one of those. Nice, yeah, yeah. None of

them are super popular, looking at lists, but

I think there's some people out there that were

fans. I don't know how, based upon some of the

reviews I saw, they weren't that great of reviewed

games of the time, but I enjoyed them, because

I was like seven, and you liked everything when

you were seven. So, what's your number four?

Number four is probably a very popular one with

a lot of people. It's Super Mario Brothers 3,

which definitely, I feel like, added a lot to

the Mario kind of canon. You had the raccoon

tail. I think that's where they got the portals

kind of brought in and everything. and then the

the whistle to kind of get transported and they

definitely added like this little boot that you

would kind of jump into which was my favorite

when you jump into the little boot and everything

so it had like all these little weird quirky

things i was kind of terrible at it uh the only

way i'd kind of get through pretty far was by

using the hidden whistles and everything to kind

of transport to different lands and everything.

But I was kind of terrible at it. I was terrible

at a lot of games. I beat Mario 3 only, I never

like fairly played it. I always cheated because

you would have the code that would take you to

the very last level. Yeah, the last level I couldn't

even get past, so you're much better than me,

Dan. I think though it was... That was back.

Remember Game Genie? I think we had a game genie.

I never had a Game Genie. I never owned one,

but I think we either rented one or borrowed

one. And with it, you could also be like the

steel version of Mario that would like never

get hurt. So like that was, yeah. And like, it

was a ridiculous amount of things that you would

be able to do with Game Genie. So my favorite

level was the one when you were really tiny and

like everything else was gigantic. Oh yeah, I

love those too. Yeah. Those were cool levels.

I hated the either air or water levels were always

terrible for me. Water levels are the worst in

any game. Yes, yes. We'll get to that with one

of my other picks. And the music was pretty cool

in that. And then you had the little mini games

like the with Toad, like the matching game kind

of thing. going on. So they had cool stuff like

that. And like, I think the first world first

level is like an iconic level. And then they

also had the cool thing where it was like a play.

So they had it was like a stage in the opening

scene, everything where the start menu and everything.

So that was that was pretty cool. So I'll reserve

comment further. But yeah. So my next, my number

four is probably one. I'm assuming you maybe

played this. I think so. But, you know, licensed

games aren't typically all that great. There

was a lot of them from the NES. Remember like

Ramro had a game that we would play and you know,

like any, I remember Lethal Weapon had a video

game. Robocop. Robocop. Most of them weren't

very good. But one that I loved growing up and

I still think is Legit good and one of them that

I can actually still play today is Batman the

video game. I Don't know if you ever played it.

It was based upon the 1989 Batman movie Yeah,

I think I remember stuff from it, but I don't

remember Actually playing it or maybe if I did

play it was like At like a store or something

where they had it like set up is like a kind

of trial thing Yeah, it was a side -scroller

but like you had a lot of cool weapons and gadgets

that you can collect and it's probably like the

first exposure I've ever had anything like a

role -playing game where you would be able to

like upgrade things or like get new gadgets for

you know you had tools you could use and it was

the graphics are pretty solid and Pretty good

controls for a very long time It was like the

only good Batman game because those Batman games

are pretty awful for a very long period of time

But that one has always stood out to me and like

I said, I I went back to try to play some of

these and that still works It still holds up

pretty well. So I love the I think Partially

just because I love the Batman logo of that time

the yellow and black has always been my favorite

So if seeing that any incarnation helps, but

uh, yeah, I would I would say recommend playing

it, but I don't know if you really could, but

it's good. It's quite good. At least watch some

video clips of it. What's next on your list?

Next on my list, I'm continuing on with the theme

here. I'm going with Super Mario Brothers 2.

this one beats out three is because my cousin

had the game and So I could only really play

it when I was over his house and he really didn't

like me playing his his games It was like so

bizarre version because I was only at that time.

I played Super Mario Brothers the the first one

and then I was already playing three before then

and then like I discovered that he got that one

from like used or whatever and so it kind of

kind of came after three for me and it was just

so bizarre and different from one and three because

i believe uh they kind of outsourced it to someone

else and then like nintendo kind of like disavowed

it or something there's this weird back history

to it but it's it's so weird and different you

could pick either mario luigi peach or toad i

always played as peach because she i was terrible

with like jumping from thing to thing and she

had like this little floating kind of thing she

did with her skirt which helped me a lot but

I just love that game because it was so different

and bizarre to the normal lore that it really

stuck out to me and the fact that you could pick

different characters. You didn't jump to kill

your, jump on your enemies to kill them. You

could jump on them and pick them up and throw

them at other enemies or throw them different

places or pick up these vegetables from the ground.

I think it was, um, Beats and stuff that you

kind of threw but it was it was so different

and then even the first boss It's like this dinosaur

that threw eggs at you and you had to jump on

the egg and like pick up the egg And throw it

back and like I believe the character Is a boy

but dressed up as a girl. There's some kind of

weird sexual Weird thing kind of going on there

and then like it's just like Birdmouth with it

open up and you have to go through the Birdmouth

to go the next level It was so so bizarre that

it was so stuck It still sticks into my mind

and I'm always like I want to play that game

again. I was terrible at it I never got really

far through the game. I think I'd only beat the

first like boss and get to the next Couple levels

and that was about it But it was so bizarre that

it definitely sticks out my mind and the fact

that I couldn't play it It still makes me want

to play it that I couldn't play it back then

so so yeah It was actually it was an entirely

different game, but they didn't think it would

sell in the u .s. So they just put the Mario

skin on it and there you go So yeah, it's very

cool. I definitely recommend checking that one

out if you were like One or like the newer ones.

I definitely check it out because it's such a

bizarre thing nice nice for number three for

me is The game contra a game. I played a lot

of but I don't think I ever got past the second

level Like NES games are way tougher than any

game now like you could progress so far in the

games out now compared to what you could do in

the NES yeah because like there was no saving

progress once you're dead you're dead there was

like no going we're going back so yeah I played

a lot of Contra I loved all the great all the

crazy uh guns and stuff that you would play you'd

go through the different levels and then you

know you would always end each level with those

crazy like like doors you'd have to fight each

time and Just the insanity of the guns that physically

the based on physics made no sense Like how does

this gun do this? It didn't matter. It was an

NES game You know played a little bit of Contra

2 was not not nearly as good but yeah spent a

lot of time paying playing Contra was like the

Like the manliest game of that time. I think

you know great great sound as well a lot of fun

a lot of fun, but tough as balls What's your

number two? I actually never played Contra as

well. Really? Wow. Nope. Never played Contra.

There's a lot of games out there that I have

never played, but they're super, super popular

and everything from back then. What was the other

one? Paperboy? Paperboy, yeah. Never played that

one. Man. The second one was actually mentioned

already. But I really love this one as well Chip

and Dale's rescue Rangers love this one or the

fact that you could have Like super I think I

got this one before I even got Super Mario Bros.

3. I love the fact that I was able to play with

two people, so my brother and I could play that

one a lot. The music, too, was really good. The

kind of fighting style where you picked up these

blocks and chucked them really quick. You're

like, pick up, throw, pick up, throw, pick up,

throw, pick up, throw. And the little sound that

kind of went along with it was really great.

And I actually got pretty far in that game. I

think between my brother and I, I think we actually

defeated it like at least once but it was definitely

replayable and everything. It had like these

interesting levels and everything that were really

cool because you're a chipmunk and so it's like

oh you're going through a kitchen or a playroom

so that I thought that was like really playful

and everything especially for when you're a little

kid and uh and I just love that show as well

I loved all the characters in it and it's uh

so that one just kinda like hit kinda everything

for me almost. Yeah, yeah. I don't remember that

game a lot, but I do remember playing it. Not

when I owned it, no, it's when I rented. So that's

maybe why it doesn't stick in my head as much.

A lot of those games were like kind of... Fit

in the same space because I remember the animaniacs

game which was took a lot of the same mechanics

I think uh, but he had three people and that

was a lot of fun. So those those like platform

games were were great. Um, yeah So cool. All

right my number two and this might be on your

list. I don't know But I know I don't know if

it's cheap because it was technically an arcade

game, but I know I played it on the NES more

than I played it in the arcade. And that is Ninja

Turtles. And there are... Oh, I should have had

that as my number five. That is way better than

DuckTales. But yes, I did play that one. There's

a couple different ones. It's terrible at it.

There's the arcade, you know, arcade one where

you would... the first level would be the building

on fire. That was probably my favorite one. Then

there's the other one where you would drive around

in that, in the... in the car in different spots.

That one was tough as hell because you get to

the talking about a water level, which is, I

think, unbeatable. It was one of those things

where I'd play that game. I know I wasn't going

to beat that level, but you would try. It was

one of the achievements I never was able to complete

as a kid was beating that water level. See, I

had one where it was more you would kind of walked.

from sewer pipe to sewer pipe and it had like

this weird different animation and like feel

then actually when you went through the different

sewer systems and everything and then you could

fight as like any of the four turtles and then

you could change if you needed to to different

turtle midway through the level and everything

yeah there's a couple of different ones and and

there's that one I forget which one had the water

level but the arcade one was probably my favorite

because you would fight you know you would that

was more of a side scroller. Did you have a turtle

that you would prefer? I think I preferred in

that game it was either Leonardo or Donatello

because they had a better reach with their weapons.

Raphael was the worst of the characters. Michelangelo

maybe came in third because his was better than

Raph's but still not as good as Donatello or

Leonardo's reach. Raphael, it was like he just

kind of stuck his arm out a little bit and it

just had like... Four pixels maybe long of his

size spinning around. I'm like, this is Awful.

Yeah, I was so I was not well downtown was always

my favorite Ninja turtle to begin with but that

was always my go -to as well because of that

reach and it was a little much easier to play

and When you were done with rap, you're like,

oh, this is done. Yeah, there's a way Well, I

always used him as a last resort. I'm like shit.

I only have Rafael left. I'm fucked Alrighty.

Well, we're down to our number one. So what was

your favorite classic NES game? Classic NES game

that I still even would like to play today. It's

got a bunch of replayability. It was difficult,

but I was still able to beat it multiple times

Which it's the first guy game NES game that I've

ever beaten It's got a load of different cool

villains The music is just stunning in it and

you could play it could have a whole bunch different

weapons I think you know when I'm talking about

Mega Man 2 is definitely my favorite by far.

Like even when I slow down playing video games,

Mega Man 2 would still be one of the first ones

I go to. You get all these different cool weapons.

You kind of collect them as you go, which was

kind of a cool concept where you defeat the villain,

but then you get his power. The music was just

phenomenal. I still today I'll like there's this

band that does chiptune songs and they do a cool

Mega Man. I believe in concert they have like

a guy playing on a speedrun on Mega Man 2 and

they will play the entire soundtrack as he goes

for each level and even just talking about it

now I want to after this go on YouTube and Play

those because the music is just phenomenal and

the villains are cool. You got a wood man bubble

man And like if you play if you knew how to play

it in a certain order Villains are more susceptible

It's different powers that you could steal off

their buddies and everything. That game was just

a lot of fun to me. I just love it. And the characters

are so cool looking, the character design and

everything. And the levels are so weird, futuristic.

And so yeah, Mega Man 2 is definitely on the

top for me. Might be sacrilegious, but I've never

actually played really a Mega Man game. Not really.

You're kind of doing me with like Zelda and everything.

Yeah. played maybe one here and there but i never

owned one i never played one i don't know why

it's just one of those things that like sent

like you said with zelda like it just completely

missed it so do me a favor like if you're like

working and you could play music at the same

time bring up like a chiptune like megaman 2

soundtrack it's it's really good nice nice All

right. Well, my number one is one also that's

been mentioned already and I knew it was gonna

be a Mario game because honestly that was probably

what I played the most and still today I Love

classic Mario and I can so I can still play it

and I was a big part of my list and like you

my favorite Mario game was Mario 2 and It was

because of just how odd it was I love to be able

to play different characters my go -to was actually

Luigi most part because he had that really long

like So fast and slippery though. It was so hard

to control him as so as your luigi might be but

i guess i enjoy just this long jump i felt like

i got i got a good use of it and uh so that that

are peach peach peach you could float like you

could float the distance with peach i just i

don't know i love the design i love the bosses

seem so weird i remember like you'd have to jump

on top of the egg and throw it at the person

it was it was It was very cool. I loved I love

Mario 2. I do love Mario 3 a lot as well I probably

honestly played that the most and Mario 1 like

I remember one time I was playing the first Mario

game and It was like when you have the star And

I kept pausing it as I was playing it and I was

really annoying my dad because I was because

it would change colors as you're playing the

star. So I was pausing and just looking at different

colors that you would become. And he was not

a big fan of doing that. I was just worried I

was going to ruin the screen, which maybe I would

have. I don't know. But overall, I would say

my favorite one was the second one. I don't think

I've ever beaten it. I got pretty far, though,

but much further. Oh, really? Yeah. Without without

much further than the Mario one or Mario three.

I apparently just suck at video games. Maybe.

Maybe. I don't know. But when I go back and want

to play a Mario game, that's usually the first

one I want to go to. Not really. I could have

also cheated a lot. I know I got through a few

levels, but I think the benefit of that Mario

one was you never really knew how far you were

compared to Mario 3 where you could see it on

the board of where you're headed. Did you have

any other games that you didn't make your top

five that honor mentions? Duck hunt? I just remember

that one, like I said, with the gun and just

putting it right up to the screen and kind of

cheating, but it was an interesting kind of concept

of how to play a video game. And that stupid

dog that will laugh at you for not being able

to shoot well. Oh, fuck that dog. I used to shoot

at that dog all the time. That might be one of

the most hated characters ever in history of

video games. I had to play Duck Hunt a lot because

we had that three, my friend had the three pack,

which was Mario 1, Duck Hunt, and then the stadium

game, which would be an automatic, all those

would be automatic, honorable mentions for me.

The stadium games were fun because you had the

triple jump and things like that, the sprint,

the hurdles. That was a good, that was a good

time, but anything else? Tecmo Pole is a good

one. Yes, that was, that's all good. Yeah, that's

an honorable mention for me. I used to get my

ass kicked all the time by my brother I'm definitely

much better at it now than I was back then I

could say I've definitely replayed it again since

then Especially since I I know football a little

bit better than I did back then I was kind of

clueless What else? Skate or Die was really cool

to me. I never had it. It was my cousin's game

so that also added an intrigment to the game

for me. Double Dragon was really cool. I thought

the controls for that and side scroll and the

kicking and everything and that was really cool

to me. Yeah, that's all about I'm remembering

right now. You mentioned Paperboy that was there.

I didn't play that a lot. Bubble Bobble, which

was one of my favorite puzzle games growing up.

Bubble Bobble, I never heard of that one. Yeah,

it was like you'd play these weird like the little

lizard creatures and you would have to try to

catch things as they would fall down. It's a

random thing. Excitebike, which I think I spent

the most time just because that was the cool

thing about that was like you would be able to...

Create your own like levels and things and also

my Dennis had like a Like an arcade machine and

excite break was on there So I spent a lot of

times recovering from the dentist by playing

excite bike. So that was a good time punch out

Terrible punch out. I was terrible too. Like

I think I beat the first and second guy and then

like I gave up It was like I could never get

very far My hand was always hurting if I ever

play that game because I don't think I had that

one I think that was another cousin game. Like

my hand would always hurt after that Yeah, that

one was intense and there was another game I

kind of I couldn't think of it but was like you

play different like in sporting games like there

was a surfing that was While you're looking up

that, I thought of two more. Snoopy's Olympics

was a really fun one with like the boot throw,

a Pogo stick race, a pizza stacked pizza race.

Then there was another one that I don't remember

the name of where you were essentially a ball

and you had to kind of go down this maze. And

like, if you fell off, you kind of had to restart

and there was a timer and everything. It was

actually a really popular game, but I can't remember

the name of it right now is like marbles or something

like that but yeah that that one was a lot of

fun too california games that was the name of

it okay yeah i was like thanks for google because

i'm like nes game that You could play different

things like skating. It's like, oh, here you

go. I'm like, you're a genius, Google. I don't

know how exactly you do it, but you do it. It's

like little mini games you would do. There was

one that you were in a pool for skateboarding.

There was a surfing level. And it was like the

Olympics, but like X Games before X Games. I

got you. Nice. But yeah, a lot of classic NES.

It was fun doing this, just thinking about old

times. Yeah, but I think like for me I played

NES but at Sega Genesis when it was really hitting

a new level In seriousness when it came to game

playing a lot of a lot of seriousness when things

like NBA GMT edition So many controllers were

thrown when you would oh, yeah At my house as

well. Yeah, you get very heated at those and

my parents were always like Like if you love

it so much, why are you flipping out? It's just

a game like it relax Just kidding. You're supposed

to be having fun. Yeah, it's cheating How's it

cheating and it's cheating games do cheat we

get all the I hit the button. He didn't jump

Oh, exactly, exactly. The controller messed up.

It wasn't me. Yeah. But we'd like to hear what

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you next week. See, I do know that the hat was

somehow related to Mega Man. Yeah, yeah. He was

the main enemy. Definitely listen to that soundtrack.

It is amazing. Amazing. And you should definitely

play old Ninja Turtle games. I want to play that

world one and see if I'm any better at it now.

I miss those couch games you'd like to play together.

Now you have to be online and you're killing

each other or getting yelled at by 12 year olds.

I have a feeling that's what's going to happen

to me on Rust. Thanks. Thanks. I'm actually really

looking forward to it.